Top 70 Ewan McGregor Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.”

— Ewan McGregor

2. “Above all things, I believe in love.”

— Ewan McGregor

3. “I especially love my Moto Guzzi.”

— Ewan McGregor

4. “My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I’m with you does the pain go away.”

— Ewan McGregor

5. “I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.”

— Ewan McGregor

6. “I’ve been waiting nearly twenty years to have my own light saber. Nothing’s cooler than being a Jedi Knight.”

— Ewan McGregor

7. “I don’t do things lightly; I don’t take a job then just phone it in – I’ve never done that.”

— Ewan McGregor

8. “Success is tricky to deal with, both professionally and in your personal life.”

— Ewan McGregor

9. “The thing about parenting rules is there aren’t any. That’s what makes it so difficult.”

— Ewan McGregor

10. “UNICEF is successfully giving children and young people all over the world opportunities and hope. Just like the ones we met on the Long Way Down – protecting them from exploitation and giving them chances in life.”

— Ewan McGregor

11. “I’m fiercely proud to be Scottish.”

— Ewan McGregor

12. “No, I’m putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.”

— Ewan McGregor

13. “What matters most with any regimen, whether it’s to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say ’no more.”

— Ewan McGregor

14. “Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You’re the one playing the part so it has to be yours.”

— Ewan McGregor

15. “I find politicians so desperately boring. I don’t trust them and don’t believe in them.”

— Ewan McGregor

16. “I’m doing my bit for the women’s movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I’m just desperate to take my clothes off as much as possible.”

— Ewan McGregor

17. “I’ve played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I’ve always played guitars and drums and stuff.”

— Ewan McGregor

18. “I hate the word celebrity. I’m not a celebrity, I’m an actor.”

— Ewan McGregor

19. “I got married because I fell in love with this woman. I had a baby with her because we wanted to have children. But that’s not because of some philosophical ideal at all, no.”

— Ewan McGregor

20. “Mainly I was able to perform with music – I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.”

— Ewan McGregor

21. “My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.”

— Ewan McGregor

22. “It’s important, that spirit of youth, and when you’re 16 that can get you kickstarted.”

— Ewan McGregor

23. “I am so honoured to have been given this opportunity to become an Ambassador. It’s a new and different venture for me and one that I know will widen my wider perspective on life. I’m in a position to use the recognition from my work to do something really positive for children.”

— Ewan McGregor

24. “Giving kids whatever they ask for is disastrous parenting. There’s no sense of something earned. I’m sorry, but when you’re 12, you don’t need a new cell phone every few months just because a new one comes out.”

— Ewan McGregor

25. “Isn’t Halle Berry the most beautiful woman? I have a film I’d like to be in her with. I mean, I’d like to be with her in.”

— Ewan McGregor

26. “People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, ‘What? You’re married?’ Strange reaction to have. Proves what people’s ideas about marriage are. ‘We’re having a baby.’ ‘What?’ As if it’s the end of the world. Of course, it’s the start of a brilliant world.”

— Ewan McGregor

27. “I fight cynicism. It’s too easy. It’s really boring. It’s much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren’t as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.”

— Ewan McGregor

28. “I don’t think having separate bathrooms is a key to a successful marriage, if you love one another.”

— Ewan McGregor

29. “I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life – to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end.”

— Ewan McGregor

30. “I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.”

— Ewan McGregor

31. “If you’re suddenly doing something you don’t want to do for four years, just so you’ve got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don’t have that 16-year-old drive any more and you’ll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.”

— Ewan McGregor

32. “I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting.”

— Ewan McGregor

33. “Producing good stuff can be quite tough, and it involves a lot of frustration, but I always like things to be jolly and happy, and I forget thats actually not the point at the end of the day.”

— Ewan McGregor

34. “I’m just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.”

— Ewan McGregor

35. “I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.”

— Ewan McGregor

36. “I don’t pay much attention to career or what other people think. I’ve always been quite arrogant.”

— Ewan McGregor

37. “I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There’s nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.”

— Ewan McGregor

38. “I want to wear skinny jeans when I’m in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?”

— Ewan McGregor

39. “I think rehearsal can be important if it’s done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.”

— Ewan McGregor

40. “I like to dance, but it’s not my weekend activity. I’m not a clubber.”

— Ewan McGregor

41. “I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we’d only have to do one take But when you did have to do more than one, you’d build on the one you’d done.”

— Ewan McGregor

42. “I never imagined it wouldn’t work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.”

— Ewan McGregor

43. “A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you’re going and that’s all you need.”

— Ewan McGregor

44. “A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that’s fine, but they should do something else first, so they’ve got something to fall back on. It doesn’t work like that, as far as I’m concerned.”

— Ewan McGregor

45. “Of course I voted for him. He wasn’t a politician; he was a craze.”

— Ewan McGregor

46. “I find that the acting’s getting easier – with experience, everything is more instinctual.”

— Ewan McGregor

47. “It’s not my job to try and alter the director’s style – he’s in charge, and I’ll always give him my trust.”

— Ewan McGregor

48. “I was born in ’71, so I remember bits of glam rock on ‘Top of the Pops’ toward the late ’70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn’t like the music, either.”

— Ewan McGregor

49. “There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It’s not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.”

— Ewan McGregor

50. “Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew.”

— Ewan McGregor